Extended producer responsibility (EPR) is an environmental policy that regulates a producer’s responsibility for a product throughout product’s life cycle. A producer takes the responsibility for financing collection, recycling and end-of-life disposal of WEEE, batteries, accumulators and packaging and other EPR product categories, Under EPR regulations, a producer of products subject to EPR requirements must mitigate the environmental impacts of their products throughout the entire product life cycle.

WEEE Directive
Battery Directive
Packaging Directive
In some other countries, the EPR regulations have been extended to more products and categories, e.g. France.

If you are a producer of products subject to EPR regulations, you are obliged to have your EPR registration numbers.  If you are a producer and do not have EPR registration numbers, you are required to register to obtain them. If you are not a producer but you are a seller of products subject to EPR regulations, you need to obtain the applicable EPR numbers from your upstream supplier. If you are not a producer and cannot obtain the applicable EPR registration numbers from your upstream supplier, you are required to register to obtain them before sales. Please note that you are not allowed to sell before having obtained the EPR Numbers.

Generally speaking, the EPR registration number is one of the existing registration numbers with the local authorities and/or one of the official EPR organisations in the relevant countries. Please note that you need to register in all the countries where you manufacture / sell / import products. There is no single EPR number for the European Union.